. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds -- North America; Ornithology -- North American; Oiseaux -- Amérique du Nord; Ornithologie -- Amérique du Nord. 472 \ORTII AMKRICAN lURDS. Geococc3rx californianus, Batrd. FAI8AH0; BOAD-BUNNEB; CHAFABBAL COCK. Saurnthera cali/urnumn, Lksson, C'oiiii»lt'iu. liutr. VI, 1829, 420. — Botta, Ann. du Mus. 183a, 121, pi. (<.'ajM* St, to San Fiancisto). Gotcoccijx vnriajntit, \Va(;leh, Isis, \\ 1831, 524. Siiunitlnra buttn: (), , Truite ilOrn. I, 1831, 145. Jiijilojtfmis viittiniJi (\Arui.) I)nlK, Isis, 18
. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds -- North America; Ornithology -- North American; Oiseaux -- Amérique du Nord; Ornithologie -- Amérique du Nord. 472 \ORTII AMKRICAN lURDS. Geococc3rx californianus, Batrd. FAI8AH0; BOAD-BUNNEB; CHAFABBAL COCK. Saurnthera cali/urnumn, Lksson, C'oiiii»lt'iu. liutr. VI, 1829, 420. — Botta, Ann. du Mus. 183a, 121, pi. (<.'ajM* St, to San Fiancisto). Gotcoccijx vnriajntit, \Va(;leh, Isis, \\ 1831, 524. Siiunitlnra buttn: (), , Truite ilOrn. I, 1831, 145. Jiijilojtfmis viittiniJi (\Arui.) I)nlK, Isis, 18:$!, 541 (n ilcsriiption). frt'iH:iHr!/.r ciaticus, , Hcv. Zool. 1844, 215. M', Vv. A. N. Sc. Ill, July, 1847, 234.— Hon. ("onsp. 18.'iO, 97. — In. Consp. Zy«,'o«l. in At»ii. ital. 1>54, 5. — !Man\, .1. A. N. Sc. Ph. 23, 270. — Nkwiikuky, Zol. —Sclatku, fatal. 324, 18(i2. — Hkkkm. X, S\ 59 (nest). Oon-twcijx mlijorniatius, Baiud, Birds N. Am. 1858, 73. — Coui'KU, Orn. Cal. I, 1S7(\ 368. Sp. Ciiau. Tail very lorn,'; tin* lateral loathers much shortest. An erectile crest on the head. A hare skin around and hthind the eye. Legs very long and .*<t()ut. All the leathers of tlie upiu-r parts and wings of a dull metallic olivaceous-green, broadly edged with white near the end. There is, however, a tinge of black in the green along the line of white, wdiich itself is sulVuscd with hrown. On the neck the black pre- ponderates. Tlie sides and under surfac(i of the neck have the white feathers streaked. Georocnjx cali/ornianwt. centrally wnth black, next to which is a brownish suffusion. Tlie remaining under parts are whitish, immaculate. Primary quills tipped with white, and with a median band across the outer webs. Central tail-feathers olive-brown: the others cl(>ar dark green, all edged, and (except the central two) broadly tipped with white. T<^p of the head dark blacki.^h-bluo. Length, 20 to inches; wing, about
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